Not to sound like an elitist snob, but you say "None give me the freedom to do what I want to be able to do" and the fact is, the rules of how HTML arranges things on a page are not that hard to learn. Coding by hand gives you absolute control over what goes where.
Of course, in the process, you may learn that what you're used to building is not how HTML should be written in the first place, but that's a whole other issue. Get over the idea that you can control exactly how it looks on everyone's screen. Everyone has a different platform and the whole point of the web is that it'll work OK everywhere.
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
PHP is and will be continue to be popular with the masses simply because, like HTML, the entry barrier is very low. It will fail to make deep inroads at the high end for the same reason: The entry barrier is very low.
I don't understand your comment. HTML is not, and can not be, a programming language, so yeah, mission-critical, enterprise-level, your-buzzword-here apps will never be written in HTML, because they can't be. On the other hand, HTML is in use by every single company, large and small, from AOL to IBM to Sun to the US government--on their web pages. So in that sense, I would say HTML has made huge inroads into every single large and powerful organization there is.
I agree that the premise of the article is dumb. PHP and Java have very little overlap. Like another poster said--"In other news, Coke wins where peanuts fail." And overall, I don't know if this is good news or not. On the one hand, M.A. is pretty well known and if he's saying good things about PHP, then great. (For me at least--I like PHP.) Maybe morons who value his opinion will hear this and I'll have that much less convincing to do. On the other hand, people who really know about him know he isn't as smart as the media makes him out to be. He got lucky and became the WWW's original "golden boy" but the true story is he wasn't particularly talented, he pissed off a lot of people by taking coders and code, and as far as I know he hasn't done a single substantial thing since leaving Netscape. So in that sense, I don't value his opinion much, and if he says PHP is great, I really don't give a shit.
It would make things simple and just go by UTC. So when we mean we are going to have a meeting in New York at 15:00, we mean we are going to have a meeting in California at 15:00.
My phone calls don't involve transactions and I sure as hell don't want ads. Other than that, it sounds like a great plan.
What are they thinking? Not everything can, or should, be free. And if they're trying to say that phone calls will be free as part of a non-free package, then they aren't exactly free, are they? By that logic, I can make unlimited local calls free already--as part of a package that includes call waiting, caller ID, etc.
"Nerd porn threads appear in the Mac forums. Some lunatic with too much time and money on his hands disassembles the new device down to the bare, soldered components and posts pictures."
I've been using this for years. The calendar itself is Perl and the data is stored in plain text files. Very flexible, very simple. With no customization it's great, and if you're not scared of editing things in Perl (you don't have to KNOW Perl, just know enough about code to recognize what lines to copy-n-paste, how to set variables, etc.--if you got WebDAV working, you can probably handle this.) it's pretty much unlimited. It's $25 shareware though since it's Perl it obviously doesn't expire or anything. Just download it, use it, and pay if you want.
I'm still waiting for someone to invent IDX--an XML-based ID3 tag. I *hate* having... a million albums by Stevie Wonder a million albums by Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory why can't I just specify more than one artist for a song and have it show up under each separately? (Especially since so many duets are not made by people who sing together often.) First of all, it's a pain because I never know, for example, if I should scroll to P or S for that particular song. Secondly, it's a waste to have an extra entry just for that one song.
A similar problem comes with hip-hop acts. Will Smith did not record "Summertime." The Fresh prince did not record "Miami." With so many artists changing names, changing bands, etc., it'd be nice to have them all unified, so I could scroll to any identity and see all songs.
I should have said it's more prevelant with hip-hop acts. Quick, who rcorded "I Can't Dance"--Phil Collins or Genesis? Sting, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Peter Cetera, Steve Perry... the list goes on.
I live in Florida and have a hallway closet serving as a server closet. Currently it has one PC (333 MHz AMD minitower with 4 HDs), my DSL modem, a router, and an access point. In the past it also had a 500 MHz Compaq Deskpro EN SFF (85W PS, I think) and an ancient 120 MHz full-size Compaq Deskpro.
I keep the house at 75-80 degrees, the closet has louvered doors, and heat has almost never been a problem. I ran into an issue once when something was wrong on the AMD and it would go to 100% CPU long enough to set off the alarm on the ASUS motherboard, but other than that, all 1/2/3 machines (at various times) have been humming along for over 3 years.
As for you, you might want to tap into the house's main AC and run a little 2-4" pipe for a bit of cooling, but that's as far as I'd go. I've had to replace a fan or two along the way, and one HD died, but that was an old (at the time) 6.8 GB IDE drive that probably had no business being in a 24/7/365 machine in the first place, so heat probably wasn't even the cause of that anyway. I haven't seen any more failures in that closet than I have with any other machine anywhere else in the house.
Laws of thermodynamics dictate that you can't put a window unit in there or anything (assuming this closet is not against an exterior wall)--that would heat up the rest of the house. IF you need cooling, run a duct from your existing AC. If you don't have AC at all, then a couple 6"-8" fans should move enough air. Assuming you don't have an airtight closet (louvered doors highly recommended!) you could have one or two fans drawing air up through the closet and exhausting into the attic.
Basically, think of the whole closet as being one giant computer case and plumb accordingly. And of course it wouldn't hurt to hit Radio Shack for a $20 digital indoor/outdoor thermometer to keep an eye on things.
Quick question: will a dual-core CPU perform worse than, as well as, or better than two independent CPUs of the same speed?
If "worse than," do the other improvements (memory, etc.) make the current $2,000 dual-core 2 GHz base model G5 better than yesterday's $2,000 dual-CPU 2 GHz base model?
True enough, but as much as I love OO, in my mind "caught on" means "more than one group using it for one purpose." Besides, OOo can *only* read their own format, which just *happens* to be.zip. Zip up a few plain text docs and use "File -> Open..." on them in OOo and see what happens. I don't have OOo on this machine right now but I'll bet the answer is "nothing." If I'm wrong, feel free to reply.
I seem to remember Opera, ages ago, could read zipped HTML+images. I'm surprised and disappointed that such a simple idea never caught on. Along with that, editors should be able to treat zipped files as directories and work on files directly in them. It might be trickier to handle images, but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to point a text editor at a zipped file, choose which text file I want to edit, edit it, and save changes, without once ever manually zipping or unzipping it. Come to think of it, every program on the planet ought to be able to peer inside a zipped file and treat it like a folder. We've certainly got the horsepower these days.
Hear hear! (Or is that "here here"?) The new Onion SUCKS BALLS. Crap all over the page. NO layout at all, it's just "here's a small box for every single piece of content we can jam on one page." Too bad we'll have to wait until 2056 for a redesign.
it isn't worth trying to reclaim old allocations...
Excuse me? Is it *really* that hard to talk to Apple, Ford, MIT or any of the other people with a whole Class A and ask "Say, guys, do you *really* need all 16 million addresses we gave you back when we didn't think this Internet thing was gonna take off?" Fucking A, according to that page, Halliburton has 34.x.y.z! Surely we can get *that* one back, right?
Programs run on operating systems, not CPUs. Your best chance is if the new Apple/Intel hardware dual-boots, or if Apple gains enough market share that CAD companies decide to start coding for them.
I have an ad-blocking `/etc/hosts` file which makes that page, and most others, quite readable. Still a lot of crap on the page but I know I blocked two IFRAME ads and maybe a few embedded images as well.
"if you tell them about all of the work done under the hood to make it faster, more reliable and easer to use..."
Faster is the one thing that *would* make me use (even pay for!) Vista. XP sucks compared to W2K, so I've stuck with 2K at home, but MS keeps releasing nifty stuff that I want to check out but they only release for XP. The only XP machine I have is my company's tablet.
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... did they get the idea for this article from Cringely's most recent column?
>> They can do lots of things, but still you can't talk to them...
:-)
> Actually, technically, Mr. Gates is wrong here: you can talk to them...
Honest mistake. Maybe he hasn't seen a Tablet PC.
"A good projection TV is indistinguishable from a plasma TV and costs half the price."
From dead-on, maybe. But stand up, or sit a few feet off to the side, and the brightness gets cut dramatically almost instantly.
I swear, you can't make this shit up. Show of hands: who here believes a single thing MS says anymore?
Not to sound like an elitist snob, but you say "None give me the freedom to do what I want to be able to do" and the fact is, the rules of how HTML arranges things on a page are not that hard to learn. Coding by hand gives you absolute control over what goes where.
Of course, in the process, you may learn that what you're used to building is not how HTML should be written in the first place, but that's a whole other issue. Get over the idea that you can control exactly how it looks on everyone's screen. Everyone has a different platform and the whole point of the web is that it'll work OK everywhere.
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
Sounds more like they've patented unorganized data
:-)
Dude, I've totally got prior art there.
Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame?
Obvious answer: blame the users!
PHP is and will be continue to be popular with the masses simply because, like HTML, the entry barrier is very low. It will fail to make deep inroads at the high end for the same reason: The entry barrier is very low.
I don't understand your comment. HTML is not, and can not be, a programming language, so yeah, mission-critical, enterprise-level, your-buzzword-here apps will never be written in HTML, because they can't be. On the other hand, HTML is in use by every single company, large and small, from AOL to IBM to Sun to the US government--on their web pages. So in that sense, I would say HTML has made huge inroads into every single large and powerful organization there is.
I agree that the premise of the article is dumb. PHP and Java have very little overlap. Like another poster said--"In other news, Coke wins where peanuts fail." And overall, I don't know if this is good news or not. On the one hand, M.A. is pretty well known and if he's saying good things about PHP, then great. (For me at least--I like PHP.) Maybe morons who value his opinion will hear this and I'll have that much less convincing to do. On the other hand, people who really know about him know he isn't as smart as the media makes him out to be. He got lucky and became the WWW's original "golden boy" but the true story is he wasn't particularly talented, he pissed off a lot of people by taking coders and code, and as far as I know he hasn't done a single substantial thing since leaving Netscape. So in that sense, I don't value his opinion much, and if he says PHP is great, I really don't give a shit.
It would make things simple and just go by UTC. So when we mean we are going to have a meeting in New York at 15:00, we mean we are going to have a meeting in California at 15:00.
Dude, my clock doesn't even go to 15.
My phone calls don't involve transactions and I sure as hell don't want ads. Other than that, it sounds like a great plan.
What are they thinking? Not everything can, or should, be free. And if they're trying to say that phone calls will be free as part of a non-free package, then they aren't exactly free, are they? By that logic, I can make unlimited local calls free already--as part of a package that includes call waiting, caller ID, etc.
We're now just over halfway through the Apple Product Cycle!
"Nerd porn threads appear in the Mac forums. Some lunatic with too much time and money on his hands disassembles the new device down to the bare, soldered components and posts pictures."
Possible Slashdot poll: what will be the "minor, rarely occurring flaw" that affects the video-playing iPod?
o Bad battery life
o E-Z-Scratch screen
o Doesn't play video
o Causes every molecule in your body to explode at the speed of light
o CowboyNeal
I've been using this for years. The calendar itself is Perl and the data is stored in plain text files. Very flexible, very simple. With no customization it's great, and if you're not scared of editing things in Perl (you don't have to KNOW Perl, just know enough about code to recognize what lines to copy-n-paste, how to set variables, etc.--if you got WebDAV working, you can probably handle this.) it's pretty much unlimited. It's $25 shareware though since it's Perl it obviously doesn't expire or anything. Just download it, use it, and pay if you want.
I'm still waiting for someone to invent IDX--an XML-based ID3 tag. I *hate* having...
a million albums by Stevie Wonder
a million albums by Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder - Ebony and Ivory
why can't I just specify more than one artist for a song and have it show up under each separately? (Especially since so many duets are not made by people who sing together often.) First of all, it's a pain because I never know, for example, if I should scroll to P or S for that particular song. Secondly, it's a waste to have an extra entry just for that one song.
A similar problem comes with hip-hop acts. Will Smith did not record "Summertime." The Fresh prince did not record "Miami." With so many artists changing names, changing bands, etc., it'd be nice to have them all unified, so I could scroll to any identity and see all songs.
I should have said it's more prevelant with hip-hop acts. Quick, who rcorded "I Can't Dance"--Phil Collins or Genesis? Sting, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Peter Cetera, Steve Perry... the list goes on.
"users with 64 bit architectures are unable to view online content created with Flash..."
Yeah, when I try to visit homestar runner on my 64-bit PowerMac G5, I... oh, wait--it works.
I live in Florida and have a hallway closet serving as a server closet. Currently it has one PC (333 MHz AMD minitower with 4 HDs), my DSL modem, a router, and an access point. In the past it also had a 500 MHz Compaq Deskpro EN SFF (85W PS, I think) and an ancient 120 MHz full-size Compaq Deskpro.
I keep the house at 75-80 degrees, the closet has louvered doors, and heat has almost never been a problem. I ran into an issue once when something was wrong on the AMD and it would go to 100% CPU long enough to set off the alarm on the ASUS motherboard, but other than that, all 1/2/3 machines (at various times) have been humming along for over 3 years.
As for you, you might want to tap into the house's main AC and run a little 2-4" pipe for a bit of cooling, but that's as far as I'd go. I've had to replace a fan or two along the way, and one HD died, but that was an old (at the time) 6.8 GB IDE drive that probably had no business being in a 24/7/365 machine in the first place, so heat probably wasn't even the cause of that anyway. I haven't seen any more failures in that closet than I have with any other machine anywhere else in the house.
Laws of thermodynamics dictate that you can't put a window unit in there or anything (assuming this closet is not against an exterior wall)--that would heat up the rest of the house. IF you need cooling, run a duct from your existing AC. If you don't have AC at all, then a couple 6"-8" fans should move enough air. Assuming you don't have an airtight closet (louvered doors highly recommended!) you could have one or two fans drawing air up through the closet and exhausting into the attic.
Basically, think of the whole closet as being one giant computer case and plumb accordingly. And of course it wouldn't hurt to hit Radio Shack for a $20 digital indoor/outdoor thermometer to keep an eye on things.
Quick question: will a dual-core CPU perform worse than, as well as, or better than two independent CPUs of the same speed?
If "worse than," do the other improvements (memory, etc.) make the current $2,000 dual-core 2 GHz base model G5 better than yesterday's $2,000 dual-CPU 2 GHz base model?
True enough, but as much as I love OO, in my mind "caught on" means "more than one group using it for one purpose." Besides, OOo can *only* read their own format, which just *happens* to be .zip. Zip up a few plain text docs and use "File -> Open..." on them in OOo and see what happens. I don't have OOo on this machine right now but I'll bet the answer is "nothing." If I'm wrong, feel free to reply.
If we're lucky, this will all weigh so heavily on their minds that they will RECOGNIZE THE DUPES tomorrow. :-)
I seem to remember Opera, ages ago, could read zipped HTML+images. I'm surprised and disappointed that such a simple idea never caught on. Along with that, editors should be able to treat zipped files as directories and work on files directly in them. It might be trickier to handle images, but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to point a text editor at a zipped file, choose which text file I want to edit, edit it, and save changes, without once ever manually zipping or unzipping it. Come to think of it, every program on the planet ought to be able to peer inside a zipped file and treat it like a folder. We've certainly got the horsepower these days.
Hear hear! (Or is that "here here"?) The new Onion SUCKS BALLS. Crap all over the page. NO layout at all, it's just "here's a small box for every single piece of content we can jam on one page." Too bad we'll have to wait until 2056 for a redesign.
it isn't worth trying to reclaim old allocations...
Excuse me? Is it *really* that hard to talk to Apple, Ford, MIT or any of the other people with a whole Class A and ask "Say, guys, do you *really* need all 16 million addresses we gave you back when we didn't think this Internet thing was gonna take off?" Fucking A, according to that page, Halliburton has 34.x.y.z! Surely we can get *that* one back, right?
Programs run on operating systems, not CPUs. Your best chance is if the new Apple/Intel hardware dual-boots, or if Apple gains enough market share that CAD companies decide to start coding for them.
I have an ad-blocking `/etc/hosts` file which makes that page, and most others, quite readable. Still a lot of crap on the page but I know I blocked two IFRAME ads and maybe a few embedded images as well.
Yup. I used to play with my dad's page magnifier: focusing 8x10" of sun into a 1/2x1/2" spot. Things got really burnt really fast. :-)
"if you tell them about all of the work done under the hood to make it faster, more reliable and easer to use..."
Faster is the one thing that *would* make me use (even pay for!) Vista. XP sucks compared to W2K, so I've stuck with 2K at home, but MS keeps releasing nifty stuff that I want to check out but they only release for XP. The only XP machine I have is my company's tablet.